CHANGE FORM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does change form mean? 

• CHANGE FORM (verb)
  The verb CHANGE FORM has 1 sense:

1. assume a different shape or form

  Familiarity information: CHANGE FORM used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHANGE FORM (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Assume a different shape or form

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

change form; change shape; deform

Hypernyms (to "change form" is one way to...):

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "change form"):

roll (take the shape of a roll or cylinder)

grain; granulate (become granular)

bulge; pouch; protrude (swell or protrude outwards)

point; sharpen; taper (give a point to)

furl; roll up (form into a cylinder by rolling)

flatten; flatten out (become flat or flatter)

draw (contract)

deform (become misshapen)

batter; dinge (make a dent or impression in)

distort; twine; twist (form into a spiral shape)

bend; deform; flex; turn; twist (cause (a plastic object) to assume a crooked or angular form)

bend; flex (form a curve)

extend; stretch; stretch out; unfold (extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length)

bug out; bulge; bulge out; come out; pop; pop out; protrude; start (bulge outward)

Sentence frame:

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 Context examples 

In motor neuron disease, it was caused by mutations in the FUS protein itself which meant it was no longer able to change form.

(Mechanism behind neuron death in motor neurone disease and frontotemporal dementia discovered, University of Cambridge)